subject: Top Five Tourist Places To Visit In Thailand [print this page] Thailand is an enormously popular tourist place in Southeast Asia. This is certainly due to a reason. Almost anything can be found here: this includes thick jungle, crystal blue beaches, excellent food, and top luxury hotels of the world. You will surely find at least something that completely matches your interest and budget. Thailand maintains its exemplary identity through its own distinctive culture and history.
You can use Thailand vacation packages to enjoy your visit to this place with even more delight. There are many tourist attractions in Thailand that every visitor longs to see. These include:-
1. Ko Phi Phi -
This is a tiny archipelago in Krabi Province of Southern Thailand. The biggest island of this group is Ko Phi Phi Don and is just the island having permanent inhabitants. The tinier Ko Phi Phi Leh remains very famous for beach and dive excursion.
The tourism to Ko Phi Phi exploded just recently, particularly when Ko Phi Phi Leh got used in the form of a location in the 2000 movie called The Beach. The huge number of tourists visiting Ko Phi Phi indicates the charisma associated with this place.
2. Railay -
Railay beach acts as a tiny peninsula which is just accessible using boat because of high limestone cliffs that cut off the mainland access. Such cliffs attract the rock climbers coming from all across the globe. The beautiful beaches and relaxing atmosphere of this place makes it a huge hit among the tourists. The accommodation here gives you the option of affordable bungalows that are popular among backpackers, climbers, etc.
3. Phang Nga Bay -
Placed just over 60 miles distance from the island of Phuket, the Phang Nga Bay remains a prime attraction in Thailand. This area is known for its scenic beauty. It comprises of splendid aquatic grottoes, caves, as well as limestone islands. Here the most popular island of the bay is the sea stack known as Ko Ping Kan (that is more commonly called James Bond Island).
It got featured within a movie of James Bond called The Man with the Golden Gun". You can visit Phang Nga Bay using sea kayak because this is just the way for getting inside the sea caves and grottoes.
4. Chiang Mai Night Bazaar -
Chiang Mai is a hugely popular attraction of this place. This popular Night Bazaar tends to sprawl along many city blocks across the footpaths, inside the buildings as well as temple grounds. This market is known for its arts, handicrafts, clothing, imported products involving all descriptions, etc.
The big, well-appointed new shopping centers over here add to the charm of this place. At first, this market had Chinese merchants as its owners. But after it expanded in size with more number of commercial buildings getting built, it no longer remained owned by any one group. Rather, there are now several owners, with most of them being Thai.
5. Ayuthaya
It was founded by King U Thong in 1350 in the form of Siams second capital after Sukhothai. All through the centuries, the perfect location of Ayutthaya made it Asias trading capital. By the year 1700 Ayutthaya became one of the biggest cities of the world having total 1 million inhabitants. During 1767 this city got destroyed by Burmese army.
This caused the collapse of its kingdom. This city got re-founded few kilometers towards the east of ruins that currently form Ayutthaya historical park. The remains here are mostly temples or palaces, as these just were the buildings created from stone that time.
